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Miller, who was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine from 1991 to 2005, authors this blog for PC Magazine to share his thoughts on PC-related products. No investment advice is offered in this blog. All duties are disclaimed. Miller works separately for a private investment firm which may at any time invest in companies whose products are discussed in this blog, and no disclosure of securities transactions will be made.

Unboxing the Apple iPhone 4: First Impressions

I'm not quite sure what the fascination is with "unboxing" new products, but there's no denying that lots of people like to see what it's like to open up a new product. I got my new iPhone 4 this morning, so I've included a number of photos of the process of getting it out of the box and up and running.

If you pre-ordered a phone, you should get it today or tomorrow; otherwise it is going on sale in the U.S. next week. I'm going to wait until I've had the chance to use it for a few days before attempting a real review, but here are some of the first reviews.

More pictures after the jump.

And here it is, as promised.

Out of the (first) box.

My first glimpse of the phone.

My instructions, USB cable, power connector, and earphones.

You need to activate the phone by plugging it into iTunes.

And finally, it's up and running! Well, on Wi-Fi; I'm still waiting for AT&T activation to finish.(Update 2:30: four hours later and I'm still waiting for activation. But it did deactivate my older iPhone. Update 6/24: It activated this morning and seems to be working fine.)

Now, of course, I'm going to get started using it, which should be the fun part. I'll be posting more soon!

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